Berlin, Germany-based classic rock overlords KADAVAR have shot a video with contemporary artist Dust in Bern, Switzerland for their song “Eye Of The Storm”. The song comes off the band’s most recent album Abra Kadavar and marks the end of the 2 year cycle promoting the album by relentless touring across the globe.

Watch the video for “Eye Of The Storm” on the Nuclear Blast Youtube channel, here:

The unique symbiosis of rock and street art united in a video is what makes this so special. The story is quite simple: KADAVAR and Dust meet in Bern, hang out together, and KADAVAR hits the stage as Dust paints a mural.

How did it happen? Although KADAVAR have spent the last three and a half months, non-stop, recording the new LP, a big concern for the guys from KADAVAR was a final tribute to the last album, which should be something special. So, the common idea of this crossover project with the internationaly-renowned street artist, David Stegmann aka dust, arose.

“When you combine auditory and visual impressions together, it can always create something new. We found it very exciting from the start, putting out our feelers and combining one one of our songs with street art,” added Tiger, the man behind the drums. The song “Eye of the Storm” provided the perfect setting for this: “The video should feature a live perfomance of us, so we wanted to play a song, which simply has power. That’s why we both thought “Eye Of The Storm,”” adds Tiger.

Dust asked for a turn in the action: “For me, it was a very exciting encounter because the music of KADAVAR has an almost symbiotic relationship with my painting, and is always very inspirational for me while I work. My series, “Koerperwesen,” almost felt created for it, like a strange creature, it meanders up from the shadows behind the logo of KADAVAR (laughing). A truly brilliant, unforgettable evening. It was an honor to do this.”

The video combines Dust’s grandiose mural painting in action, with a unique concert by KADAVAR at the legendary ISC Club Bern.

Swedish death-thrashers THE HAUNTED recently released worldwide their 8th full-length album, Exit Wounds, via Century Media Records. Today, the video clip for the high-energy track “Eye Of the Storm”, produced by Oliver Barth of Visions In Fear, is being debuted at the following location:

Upon release, Exit Wounds managed to enter the international sales charts:

The two exclusive bonus tracks featured on the Mediabook CD edition are “As The Poison Sets In” and “The Manifestation”.

The physical formats can be purchased here. To purchase the album digitally via iTunes, head here.

Featuring artwork by Andreas “Diaz” Pettersson (who designed the band’s first four releases, as well as their iconic logo), Exit Wounds is an unmistakable return to form for THE HAUNTED. The album sees a revamped line-up that includes founding members Jonas Björler (bass) and Jensen (guitars) teaming up with former members Adrian Erlandsson (drums) and Marco Aro (vocals), together with newest member Ola Englund (guitars). Exit Wounds contains the full spectrum of artillery that a modern extreme metal band can possibly showcase.

German Classic Rock band KADAVAR are set to release their first ever live record called “Live In Antwerp” as well as the “Abra Kadavar Special Edition” on June 6 (Europe) and June 9 (UK & France) 2014 via Nuclear Blast. The band has recently launched the official lyric video of ‘Eye Of The Storm‘ track the Nuclear Blast YouTube channel. The video can be seen below:

The 2CD set called “Abra Kadavar Special Edition” will include the full tracklist of last year’s success album “Abra Kadavar” plus a bonus track, as well as a full live set recorded in Antwerp. “Live In Antwerp” comes as a separate 2LP set and also features the full live concert recorded in 2013.

Furthermore KADAVAR have also announced additional European Festivalshows for summer and autumn 2014.

Swedish metal pioneers THE HAUNTED have just returned from a successful return to stages at the 70,000 Tons Of Metal cruise in the Caribbean, and now they are debuting another new song from the recently released 3-track single “Eye Of The Storm” online. The single released by Century Medias Records marks THE HAUNTED‘s recording debut in their revamped line-up announced last summer, featuring founding members Jensen (Guitars) and Jonas Björler (Bass), returning members Marco Aro (Vocals) and Adrian Erlandsson (Drums) as well as new member Ola Englund (Guitars).Check out a clip featuring rehearsal room footage for the relentless 58-seconds (!) track “My Enemy” via the website of Metal Hammer UK HERE!

THE HAUNTED have checked in with the following comment about their current activity:

“After having found our feet as a band onstage at last week’s 70,000 Tons Of Metal festival, it is now time to bring the mayhem home to Scandinavia. First show of the tour will hit Gothenburg (I mean, where else, right?) followed up by a string of shows in Sweden, Norway and Finland. The reception of the three new songs from our newly released EP “Eye of the Storm” at 70K was amazing, so expect them to be played, together with a truckload of other hard-hitters. We can’t wait to get back out there playing shows again, and we’ll make sure it has been worth your while sticking around for us through thick and thin. See you all somewhere along the road!”

Previously, THE HAUNTED had made the single’s title track available to be checked out online via a static video on the followingYouTube link:

“Eye Of The Storm” is available as limited edition 7″ EP (1000 copies split as follows: 500x on black and 300x on red vinyl in Europe as well as 200x on white vinyl in North America) and as digital single, featuring the new songs “Eye Of The Storm”, “Infiltrator” and “My Enemy”. You can order the 7″ (in black or red vinyl versions) as well as the band’s back catalogue for special reduced prices from CM Distro in Europe HERE or visit iTunes to purchase the digital version of the “Eye Of The Storm” single HERE.

Century Media Records announces that Sweden’s Metal pioneers THE HAUNTED are soon to debut brand-new music by releasing a 3-track single entitled “Eye Of The Storm” on January 20th, 2014 in Europe and January 21st, 2014 in North America via Century Media Records. The single’s cover artwork is pictured below.

“Eye Of The Storm” will be available as limited edition 7″ EP (1000 copies split as follows: 500x on black vinyl, 300 on red vinyl and 200x on white vinyl) and as digital single, featuring the new songs “Eye Of The Storm”, “Infiltrator” and “My Enemy”.

The single marks THE HAUNTED’s recording debut in their revamped line-up announced last summer, featuring founding members Jensen (Guitars) and Jonas Björler (Bass), returning members Marco Aro (Vocals) and Adrian Erlandsson (Drums) as well as new member Ola Englund (Guitars).

THE HAUNTED’s Jensen checked in to comment about the upcoming release as follows: “There aren’t superlatives enough to describe how much the band has longed for these three songs to be released. We are sure fans have been anxious to know what the band sounds like today after all the turmoil and old members leaving and new members joining. We feel that these three songs represent the band perfectly. We are currently working on the new album, an album that will be filled to the brim with what we know to be “The Haunted”. We’ll start doing gigs this spring and we’ll do festivals all over the place this summer. Get in touch with the festivals you visit (and behave like an animal at) and tell them to get us on the bill! The Haunted is back. Play it loud. No. Louder.”

THE HAUNTED, who are currently busy working on their upcoming studio album release expected for Summer 2014, will be celebrating their long awaited return to stages and debut the revamped line-up by taking part of the upcoming 70,000 Tons Of Metal cruise, which runs from January 27th to 31st, 2014 going from Miami to Costa Maya in Mexico and back to Miami. Other bands appearing include Carcass, Cynic, Dark Tranquillity, Death Angel, Death (To All), Fear Factory, Finntroll, Obituary, Orphaned Land, Satyricon and many more.

DIVINEFIRE, the Finnish/Swedish melodic metal band led by guitarist and composer Jani Stefanovic, will release its fifth studio album, “Eye Of The Storm”, on March 25 via Liljegren Records.

DIVINEFIRE is now fronted by two vocalists — Christian Liljegren (GOLDEN RESURRECTION) and German Pascual (NARNIA) — both of whom previously sang for the now-defunct melodic, neo-classical metal band NARNIA.

“Eye Of The Storm” track listing:

01. Time For Salvation
02. Hold On
03. Unchain My Soul
04. Bright Morning Star
05. To Love And Forgive
06. Even At My Lowest Point
07. Send Me Out
08. Masters And Slaves
09. The World’s On Fire
10. Never Surrender
11. Masquerade
12. Close To The Fire

A 40-second trailer for the album can be viewed below. Source: Blabbermouth.net